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Saudi Arabia's Savola Group reported a 15.4 per cent fall in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday, missing analyst forecasts as the food producer warned its third-quarter profit was likely to plunge.
The company made a net pro

Savola, a multinational food group based in Saudi Arabia, recorded the biggest consumer product sales in the Middle East-Africa (MEA) region during the fiscal year ending June 2014, a report said.
While Savola claimed the 111th ra

The world’s 250 largest consumer products companies generated sales of nearly $3.1 trillion in fiscal year ending June 2014, despite economic uncertainty, a report said.
This resulted in an average company size of $12.3 bill

Saudi Arabia's largest food products firm, Savola Group, posted an 11.2 per cent jump in first-quarter earnings on Sunday, but said profits in the second-quarter would be down by comparison with a year ago.
Among the few Saudi

Saudi Arabia-based Savola Group has extended its relationship with OMD Arabia, a global media network part of the Omnicom Media Group, by assigning its newly created corporate account and as well as reappointing OMD Arabia on its retail account.

Saudi Arabia's Takween Industries has signed a SR1.3 billion ($346.6 million) Islamic loan with a group of local banks to fund the acquisition of Savola Packaging Company, it said on Wednesday.
Takween in December agreed to bu

Saudi food producer Savola Group, the country's largest food products company, reported a 23 per cent drop in fourth-quarter net profit on Sunday, missing analyst forecasts.
Net earnings in the three months to December 31 were

Talks are still under way with several parties for a sale of the business of Kuwait Food Company (Americana), the company's biggest shareholder said on Thursday.
Americana, backed by Kuwait's billionaire Al-Kharafi family,

Saudi Arabia's Takween Advanced Industries said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy a packaging unit of the region's largest food firm Savola Group for SR910 million ($242.5 million).
The firms reached agreement the price fo